In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.


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I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it mad...
BETTY FORD
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book...
HARRISON FORD
When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rew...
DEBBIE FORD
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished some...
HENRY FORD
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at ...
HARRISON FORD
Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our dee...
DEBBIE FORD
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
HENRY FORD
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HENRY FORD
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
HENRY FORD
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
HENRY FORD
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in...
HARRISON FORD
It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner ...
DEBBIE FORD
When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is...
TOM FORD
Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
TOM FORD
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
HENRY FORD
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
LUKE FORD
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world f...
LUKE FORD
Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebod...
DEBBIE FORD
Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at th...
DEBBIE FORD
If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you m...
DEBBIE FORD
Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.
DEBBIE FORD
Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your i...
DEBBIE FORD
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, ch...
DEBBIE FORD
As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a st...
DEBBIE FORD
I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.
DEBBIE FORD
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become full...
DEBBIE FORD
When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortles...
DEBBIE FORD
You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacre...
DEBBIE FORD
It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and d...
DEBBIE FORD
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who p...
HENRY FORD
Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have o...
DEBBIE FORD
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what h...
HENRY FORD
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
HENRY FORD
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
HENRY FORD
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
HENRY FORD
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
HENRY FORD
Any colour - so long as it's black.
HENRY FORD